Fable of an Inconsolable Man by Javier Etchevarren and translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval

This is poetry from Uruguay.

Fable of an Inconsolable Man by Javier Etchevarren translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval is published by Action Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780900575952E12.

Fable of an Inconsolable Man, by Javier Etchevarren and translated from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval, gives English-language readers Javier Etchevarren’s inconsolable figure, a Uruguayan poetics of desire, loss, and dramatic self-making. Published by Action Books, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Uruguay in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.